CN214576824U

CN214576824U - Rod and pipe storage device

Info

Publication number: CN214576824U
Application number: CN202023106144.5U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 戴巧利; 许晓强; 王新明; 徐健; 倪晋杰; 寇敏
Original assignee: Wuxi Zhihan Intelligent Machine Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Wuxi Zhihan Intelligent Machine Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-12-22
Filing date: 2020-12-22
Publication date: 2021-11-02
Anticipated expiration: 2030-12-22

Abstract

The utility model relates to a pole pipe strorage device, including the storage rack that is provided with the multilayer platform that is used for shelving the pole pipe, each layer platform is provided with pole pipe entry and pole pipe export and has from the pole pipe entry to the pole pipe export is the track face of an angle downward sloping, makes a plurality of pole pipes can move down and automatically arrange horizontally along the track face through the action of gravity, its characterized in that, be provided with in the pole pipe exit of each layer platform and block mechanism and pipe mechanism turns over, block mechanism is used for blockking the pole pipe of butt with it along the further motion of track face; a tube flipping mechanism is configured to urge the wand tube, which is in abutment with the blocking mechanism, past the blocking mechanism to remove the wand tube storage device from the wand tube outlet. According to the utility model discloses a pole pipe strorage device can rely on gravity to realize arranging the pole pipe is automatic, has saved artifical calandria because only relate to simple motorized part for both improved the efficiency of workover, still greatly reduced manufacturing cost.

Description

Rod and pipe storage device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an oil workover equipment field especially relates to a rely on automatic pole pipe strorage device who arranges oil pipe or sucker rod of gravity.

Background

It is well known that during oilfield workover operations, the tubing or sucker rods (hereinafter collectively referred to as "rod tubulars") in an oil well are removed from the well and stored and, if necessary, transported to other points of use. It will be appreciated that the "string transfer module" is an important module included in a workover treatment system for the purpose of discharging a string to a fixed location and allowing precise positioning of individual strings, and relates to the functions of transferring, discharging and storing strings removed from an oil well. The rod tube storage device is an important component of the rod tube transport module.

In workover operations, a process of discharging a pipe is often involved. However, research shows that the pipe arrangement process in the current workover operation has high manual parameter degree, when the workover operation is carried out, a workover worker needs to roll each sucker rod or oil pipe to a specific position by manpower, and at least two workers are needed to complete the operation on a workover site, so that the automation degree is low, the operation efficiency is low, and meanwhile, the safety of the oilfield operation is affected due to personal injury to field personnel caused by improper operation or equipment failure.

Improved pole tube storage devices are known in the art. For example, chinese patent application CN111720078A discloses a three-dimensional storage device for underground operation pipes, which uses a conveying mechanism, a lifting mechanism and a pushing mechanism to automatically discharge and move the pipes, thereby eliminating the operations of pulling, pushing and placing at two ends of the pipes by workers, and improving the safety and environmental protection level of workover operations. However, such a rod and tube storage device is complicated in structure, cumbersome in the steps of discharge and transfer, and poor in reliability of the entire storage device due to the involvement of a plurality of automation devices.

In addition, the chinese patent application CN108222861A discloses an oil pipe storing and cleaning device and a use method thereof, wherein the storing device comprises a storing rack, a lifting platform, a pipe conveying mechanism and a receiving and conveying distributor, which can automatically store and convey oil pipes in a pipe warehouse and separate single oil pipe, so as to realize automatic storing and lifting of the oil pipes and improve the mechanization degree of operation. The storage device sends and takes pipes by means of a mechanical arm in the receiving and sending distributor, and the mechanical arm pulls the rod pipe to the storage platform of a single oil pipe after grabbing the rod pipe. However, such storage devices still involve complex tube feeding and alignment devices, with the handling of the rod tubes by dragging by the robot, although saving manpower, considerably increasing the manufacturing and maintenance costs of the device.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of such a background, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a rod pipe storage device that can realize the full automation of the processes such as the discharge rod pipe and the transfer rod pipe in the well repairing process by a simple and reliable automation operation.

The utility model provides a pole pipe strorage device, it includes the storage rack that is provided with the multilayer platform that is used for shelving the pole pipe, each layer platform is provided with pole pipe entry and pole pipe export and has from the pole pipe entry to the pole pipe export be the track face of an angle downward sloping, makes a plurality of pole pipes can move down and automatically arrange horizontally along the track face through the action of gravity, its characterized in that, be provided with in the pole pipe exit of each layer platform and block mechanism and turn over a tub mechanism, the bar pipe that blocks the mechanism and be used for blockking to be supported is followed the further motion of track face; the tube inverting mechanism is configured to urge the rod tube abutting the blocking mechanism past the blocking mechanism to remove the rod tube storage device from the rod tube outlet.

Advantageously, the storage rack is made of a plurality of profiles welded together, wherein the rod duct inlet and the rod duct outlet of each level of the platform are each defined by two profiles spaced apart in the vertical direction.

Advantageously, the storage rack is formed as a rectangular parallelepiped shaped frame dimensioned for the transfer of the storage rack with the bar tubes.

Advantageously, each deck is provided with a plurality of tracks spaced from one another in the axial direction of the rod tube and inclined at the same angle to collectively define said downwardly inclined track surfaces, each deck further comprising a plurality of tube-tipping mechanisms respectively located at the outlet end of each track, said plurality of tube-tipping mechanisms being operable in synchronism to collectively pass a rod tube over said blocking mechanism.

Advantageously, the pipe-flipping mechanism comprises a pipe-flipping member that can be driven in rotation, the pipe-flipping member being rotatable from a first horizontal position, located below the rail surface, to a second vertical position, so as to flip a pipe originally resting on the rail towards the respective pipe outlet, beyond the blocking mechanism.

Advantageously, the blocking means comprise a projection arranged at the outlet of the stem pipe, said projection being located in the vicinity of the pipe-setting member and providing a stop for the stem pipe on the platform when the pipe-setting member is in the first horizontal position.

Advantageously, the projection has a stop on the side facing the rod tube for blocking the rod tube and a ramp on the other side facing away from the rod tube, so that the rod tube slides out of the rod tube outlet along the ramp when passing the stop by the setting member.

According to the utility model discloses a pole pipe strorage device can rely on gravity to realize arranging the automation of pole pipe for artifical calandria has been saved, in addition, because whole pole pipe strorage device only relates to simple motorized components, makes when improving workover efficiency, still greatly reduced manufacturing cost, and ensured on-the-spot personnel's personal safety, make workover more intelligent, the security.

Drawings

The above and other features and advantages of the present invention will become more readily understood from the following description with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

fig. 1 shows a perspective view of a pole storage unit according to an embodiment of the invention, wherein the pole stored on each level of the platform is schematically shown;

fig. 2 shows a cut-away schematic view of a pole tube storage unit according to an embodiment of the present invention to better illustrate the downwardly sloping rail surfaces of each level of the platform; and

fig. 3a and 3b show the structure of one of the platforms of the rod tube storage device according to the embodiment of the present invention, wherein fig. 3a shows the tube-pulling member of the tube-tilting mechanism in the first horizontal position, and fig. 3b shows the tube-pulling member in the second vertical position.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments. Descriptions of orientations such as "upper", "lower", "inner", "outer", and the like that may be used in the following description are for convenience of description only and are not intended to limit the technical aspects of the invention unless explicitly stated.

The utility model relates to a can rely on gravity to realize the pole pipe strorage device of arranging to the automation of pole pipe, this kind of pole pipe strorage device can be through simple and reliable automation mechanized operation, realizes the whole automation of processes such as discharge rod pipe and the fortune pole pipe of workover in-process. As shown in fig. 1, the pole tube storage device 1 comprises a storage rack 2, preferably assembled by welding a plurality of profiles (e.g. rectangular tubes), the storage rack 2 may be provided with a multi-level platform for resting the pole tubes 3. Each level of the platform is provided with a pipe inlet 4 and a pipe outlet 5, the pipe inlet 4 and the pipe outlet 5 each being defined by two profiles 6 extending in the longitudinal direction x at a distance from each other in the vertical direction z, the pipe inlet 4 and the pipe outlet 5 having a longitudinal length greater than the length of the pipe 3 to allow the pipe 3 to be accurately fed into and removed from the pipe inlet 4 and the pipe outlet 5 of each level of the platform via an automatic transport mechanism (not shown in the figures).

For example, in one specific embodiment, a rectangular tube of 200mm × 140mm may be welded and assembled to form a rectangular frame with a length, width, and height of 10m × 2.3m × 2.8 m. This form of storage rack is sized to accommodate the transfer of the rack with the pole tubes. The storage rack may be provided with 7 levels of platforms for holding the rod pipes, wherein each level can be used for discharging 30 sucker rods or 15 oil pipes. Thus, for a 4000m deep well, 7 storage racks of the above size can be provided, 3 for discharging the sucker rods and 4 for discharging the tubing. This saves to some extent the space taken up by the transport for the transport of the rod pipe elements of a deep oil well.

Advantageously, as shown in fig. 2, each stage has a raceway surface 7 inclined downwardly at an angle from the rod pipe inlet 4 towards the rod pipe outlet 5, preferably at an angle of 4 ° to the transverse direction y. Referring particularly to fig. 3a and 3b, each deck may be provided with a plurality of rails 8 spaced apart from each other in the axial direction of the rod tube and inclined at the same angle with respect to the horizontal direction (i.e., the transverse direction y in fig. 3a), thereby providing the downwardly inclined rail surfaces 7. Thus, the plurality of rod tubes 3 are sequentially moved into each layer of the platform from the rod tube inlet 4, and then are automatically horizontally arranged by moving down along the track surface by gravity. The position of each layer of platform for storing the most external rod pipe can be provided with a sensing device, after the rod pipe is fully arranged on the platform, the sensing device sends a signal to the system, and the system controls the automatic conveying mechanism to convey the rod pipe to the rod pipe inlet of a new layer of platform without arranging the rod pipe.

Referring to fig. 3a and 3b, a blocking mechanism and a pipe overturning mechanism are arranged at the rod pipe outlet 5 of each platform, and the blocking mechanism is used for blocking the rod pipe 3 abutted against the blocking mechanism from further moving along the track surface 7, so that a plurality of rod pipes 3 entering each platform through the rod pipe inlet 4 can be sequentially arranged on the track surface 7 of the platform and cannot slide out of the track surface 7. In addition, tube-turning mechanisms can be provided at the outlet ends of the plurality of rails 8 of each deck, respectively, which can be operated synchronously to pass the rod tubes 3 abutting the blocking mechanism over the blocking mechanism. The tube inverting mechanism is configured to force the rod tube abutting the blocking mechanism past the blocking mechanism to remove the rod tube storage device 1 from the rod tube outlet 5.

According to a particular embodiment, the pipe-tipping mechanism may comprise a pipe-tipping element 9 which can be driven in rotation, the pipe-tipping element 9 being rotatable by 90 ° from a first horizontal position (see fig. 3a) below the track surface 7 to a second vertical position (see fig. 3b), the pipe-tipping element 9, when changing from the first horizontal position to the second vertical position, tipping the pipe 3 which originally rests on the track 8 towards the respective pipe outlet 5 and passing the pipe 3 past the blocking mechanism. The drive member 9 may be actuated by means known in the art, such as electrically, pneumatically or hydraulically.

Furthermore, in this embodiment the blocking means takes the form of a protrusion 10 provided on one of the profiles 6 defining the stem tube outlet 5 of each level of the platform, which protrusion 10 is located near said pipe-tipping means and provides a stop for the stem tube 3 on the platform when said pipe-stripping member is in said first horizontal position. For example, the projection 10 has a stop for blocking the rod tube 3 on the side facing the rod tube 3 and a ramp on the other side facing away from the rod tube 3, so that the rod tube 3 slides out of the rod tube outlet 5 along the ramp when passing the stop by the setting member 9. However, it should be understood that other forms of blocking mechanisms known in the art are possible, as long as the function as described above is achieved.

What is different from the prior art, the utility model provides a pole pipe strorage device has saved artifical calandria, has pulled the tedious operation of pipe fitting etc. on the one hand, and on the other hand has still saved the step that utilizes parts such as complicated manipulator to pull to the pole pipe through simple reliable automatic pipe turnover mechanism for reliability and security when not only having improved to get the pipe, the manufacturing cost of whole device has still been saved simultaneously.

It should be understood that according to the utility model discloses a pole pipe strorage device can realize the full automation of processes such as the discharge rod pipe in the workover process and move fortune pole pipe through simple and reliable automation mechanized operation.

For example, when the rod pipe is detected at the inlet of the rod pipe of one layer of platform, under the condition that the pipe pushing piece of the pipe turning mechanism is confirmed to be in the first horizontal position, the automatic conveying mechanism is allowed to feed the rod pipe into the platform through the inlet of the rod pipe, and under the condition that the platform of the layer is fully distributed with the rod pipe, the sensing device at the position of the outermost rod pipe sends a signal that the rod pipe is full to the control system, the control system controls the automatic conveying mechanism to move to the other layer of platform, and the same operation is carried out, so that the automatic arrangement and storage processes of the rod pipe are completed.

When a signal from the operation system that the rod pipe needs to be taken out is received, the pipe overturning mechanism on the platform on the layer can automatically enable the rod pipe stored on the platform to overturn the blocking mechanism one by one in response to the signal according to the position of the platform where the moving mechanism (not shown in the figure) is located, and the rod pipe is conveyed to a use place through the moving mechanism. When all the rod pipes on the platform at one layer are taken out, the sensing device at the position of the rod pipe at the outermost layer sends a signal that the rod pipe is empty to the control system, the control system controls the moving and conveying mechanism to move to the platform at the other layer, and the same operation is carried out, so that the pipe taking process is completed.

According to the utility model discloses a pole pipe strorage device only relates to simple motorized components for both improved the efficiency of workover, still greatly reduced manufacturing cost, still make workover more intelligent, the security simultaneously.

It should be noted that the above-described embodiments should be regarded as merely exemplary, and the present invention is not limited to these embodiments. Upon consideration of the present specification, those skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications without departing from the scope or spirit of the present invention. The true scope of the invention is defined by the following claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. A rod tube storage device (1) comprising a storage rack (2) provided with a plurality of levels of platforms for holding rod tubes (3), each level of platforms being provided with a rod tube inlet (4) and a rod tube outlet (5) and having a rail surface (7) inclined downwardly at an angle from the rod tube inlet (4) to the rod tube outlet (5) so that a plurality of rod tubes (3) can be moved down along the rail surface (7) by gravity and automatically aligned horizontally, characterized in that a blocking mechanism for blocking further movement of a rod tube (3) abutted thereto along the rail surface (7) and a tube-overturning mechanism are provided at the rod tube outlet (5) of each level of platforms; the tube-flipping mechanism is configured to force a rod tube (3) abutting the blocking mechanism past the blocking mechanism to remove the rod tube storage device from the rod tube outlet (5).

2. The pole storage device (1) according to claim 1, wherein the storage rack (2) is made of a plurality of profiles (6) welded together, wherein the pole inlet (4) and the pole outlet (5) of each level of the platform are defined by two profiles (6) spaced apart in the vertical direction.

3. The pole storage unit (1) according to claim 2, wherein the storage rack (2) is formed as a rectangular parallelepiped frame dimensioned for the transfer of the storage rack with the pole.

4. A rod tube storage unit (1) according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a plurality of tracks (8) are provided on each level platform spaced from each other in the axial direction of the rod tube and inclined at the same angle to collectively define said downwardly inclined track surface (7), each level platform further comprising a plurality of tube-overturning mechanisms respectively located at the outlet end of each track (8), said plurality of tube-overturning mechanisms being operable in synchronism to collectively move a rod tube (3) over said blocking mechanism.

5. The rod-tube storage device (1) according to claim 4, characterized in that the tube-flipping mechanism comprises a tube-flipping member (9) which can be driven in rotation, the tube-flipping member (9) being rotatable from a first horizontal position below the rail surface (7) to a second vertical position, thereby flipping the rod tube (3) which originally rests on the rail (8) towards the respective rod-tube outlet (5) beyond the blocking mechanism.

6. The rod tube storage device (1) according to claim 5, wherein the blocking mechanism comprises a protrusion (10) provided at the rod tube outlet (5), the protrusion (10) being located near the tube dialing member (9) and providing a stop for the rod tube (3) on the platform when the tube dialing member (9) is in the first horizontal position.

7. A rod tube storage device (1) according to claim 6, wherein the protrusion (10) has a stop for blocking the rod tube (3) on the side facing the rod tube (3) and a ramp on the other side facing away from the rod tube (3), so that the rod tube (3) slides out of the rod tube outlet (5) along the ramp when passing the stop by the toggle piece (9).